Pattern/Language with Binta Ayofemi

Artist Binta Ayofemi's Pattern/Language series investigates transmissions of utopian
pattern and form, from Persian carpets, texts, ceramics, and gardens, to
contemporary disco and funk structures adapted into 1970s Persian pop music.
For the artist’s Pattern/Language
series at the Asian Art Museum, the project explores the concept of gardens. Pattern/Language will become a roving
garden, with a small constellation of pop-up gardens and tea rooms in San
Francisco during the spring of 2014. Pattern/Language
will culminate in the artist’s Nohroozi Garten,
held in Golden Gate Park.

Sunday,
April 20Golden Gate Park: 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, de
Young Museum tower)
4–8 p.m.
(meet at 4 p.m. sharp)
This experience starts at the de Young Museum tower
and ends at Stow Lake
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Binta Ayofemi is a San Francisco-based artist fascinated
by open-source systems, including pattern language, urban gardens, and pop
music. Ayofemi's series Software, a
rehearsal of utopian forms mined from the Shakers to Soul Train, is currently featured in the exhibition The Possible at the Berkeley Art
Museum. Ayofemi presented her work Voids/Latencies,
an anthology of urban landscapes, at Theaster Gates’ Huguenot House, part of Documenta 13. Her Garden/Score is a series of urban gardens and tactile landscapes
across adjacent lots in Chicago’s South Side neighborhood. Ayofemi has
presented her work at the Kadist Art Foundation, SFMOMA, Southern Exposure, the
Carpenter Center, the Rebuild Foundation, and the Wattis Institute. Ayofemi received her MFA from Stanford and was
awarded a Harvard Design Fellowship for her work on urban landscape, Islamic
architecture, and surface material. In 2013, Ayofemi won Yahoo’s hackathon for
most creative hack, collaborating on original code that turns cascades of
Tumblr images into music.

About the Artists Drawing ClubThe Artists Drawing Club is
an interdisciplinary public program series that invites local contemporary
artists to use the museum as a platform, drawing inspiration from the permanent
collection, rotating special exhibitions, the building, and the neighborhood,
and leveraging their artistic practices to realize a new artist-driven project
in which exchange, experience, and interaction are paramount. The Artists
Drawing Club is not about the act of drawing, but drawing connections between
ideas, times, cultures, and the broader world we occupy.